Unsurprisingly, the South generally performs much worse than the North; collectively the South scores a 3.06, while the Northeast scores a full point better, at 2.01.

The Midwest (2.32) and West (2.43) are somewhat of a mixed bag, with both very peaceful and very un-peaceful states.

Louisiana comes in last, for the 20th year running (pretty remarkable), rating in the bottom five for four categories, and falling dead last in two of those.

Arizona, which has been in the news a lot over the last year over its immigration policies, suffered the biggest drop, with a huge relative spike in homicides, and a smaller spike in relative violent crime overall.